Mike Klonsky's Blog

Dorothy: 'I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.'  Toto: Nope. It's 2021 and we're still in freak'n Kansas....

Surfside, FL condo building collapse could be an omen of things to come if we go light on the infrastructure bill. AOC on the infrastructure...

Tucker Carlson: Critical race theory will lead to the genocide of white Americans. Hard to wrap my head around this one. ..A battle royale b...

George Clooney and a group of A-listers, including Don Cheadle and Kerry Washington, are working with the Los Angeles Unified School Distric...

House lawmakers passed the Chicago elected school board bill Wednesday, dealing a blow to Mayor Lori Lightfoot, even as enough potential fla...

As Biden preaches collective security and prosperity to the Group of Seven rich democracies, the European Union and NATO, he has to reckon t...

As I was Going to St. Ives BY ANONYMOUS As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had s...

R.I.P. 'CHUY' NEGRETE  --  “He was an educator of the highest extreme,”  James Edward Olmos  said of the Chicago writer of corridos ...

 Already there have been more global cases in 2021 than in all of 2020, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Dr. Anthony Fauci  “We d...

Of course, the neo-confederate GOP leadership is opposed to another probe of their 1/6 attempted coup d'etat. To them, the coup wasn...

Delmarie Cobb on Hitting Left radio in 2017.  Veteran media and political consultant,  Delmarie Cobb  responded, in her recent newsletter , ...

The Biden administration set aside $4 billion to help minority farmers. White farmers, echoing some old-guard Chicago journalists, complain...

As controversial as that was, it's important to note that the policy was for one round of interviews. @chicagosmayor gave a press confe...

Thousands march in Brooklyn Why has there been so little press coverage in Chicago media, aside from the small obligatory news reports, on t...

Israeli missiles destroy AP/Al Jazeera/BBC media offices in Gaza MSNBC’s Ali Velshi “Palestinians are at best third-class citizens in the na...

Piccolo parents protest the takeover of their school by AUSL in 2012. (Katie Osgood pic)  "Yet for all the public attention, AUSL's...

Day 5 of the march from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965. The struggle continues.  Nina Perales, vice president of litigation with MALDEF “...

“My dying words will always be, as it has been, ‘I am an innocent man,’” Lee  told the BBC  in an interview published on April 19, 2017 — th...

CNN anchor, Jim Acosta calls "BS" on Fox "That tale from the border didn't just border on BS, this was USDA Grade-A bulls...

We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century. -- Pres. Biden's address to Congress last night  Every gu...